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[l hd THE CHICAGO DAILY . TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 4, 1872 ARKANSAS. o xust Commonwealth, and Next Acquaint- ance. No History forv Ishmael---Mis- sionary Effort to Re- store It. f Wheré, and When, and How Settled~-- Anpals of the State, from Original Bocuments, . From Our Own Correspondent. 'WASRINGTON, Oct, 18, 1872, A railroad chartered by the name of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad will be open sbout Christmas. Cairo is the eouthernmost town of Illinois ; Ful- ton is & hamlet of Arkansas, on the Red River of Lonisiana. This road will be the shortest ronte from Chicago to Texas; but, until the Mississippi be bridged at Commerce, Bt. Lonis will have the advantage, as the controller of the new line is a St. Louis capitalist. Whether the great bridge at St, Louis is to be its advantage, 8 & question which time must answer; butitis wundoubted that 8t. Louis has now captured very much of the former trade of New Orlesns,— notably the Red River trade,—and, by its rail- way eystem southwestward, is aiming to carry from Memphistheentire trade of Arkaneas. Atthe Bame fime, it possesses the new lines to the In- dian Territory, whose common extension is has- tening to reach Texas. Arkansas comes up to within 70 miles of Ili- nois, and yet how little is known of it} There is 10 place really to find onything sbout the State; no book,—hardly a cyclopwdis article. The Annual Cyclop=dia for 1869 says: ¢ A his- tory of Arkensas since its first settlement by white men, and of its political existence up to the present time, has not been published, per- beps not written.” To eke out this ignorance, the editor resorts to “an oficial journal epk by Departmental regulations,—probably st the Argenal,—at Little Rock;” and this journal begins by saying: *“No history of Arkansas has ever been published.” Chicago, as the Metropolis of the Missiesippi’ Valley, should advance of the new revelation in railways in this ¢ Bear State.” THE RATLROAD STSTEM OF ARKANSAS, at the present time, comprehends, in a com- plete and incomplete condition, the following voads : The Memphis & Little Rock Railroad,—134 railes long, running only one traina day each way, in twelve hours, or sbout 11 miles an hour. The road is said to be doing a paying business. Tt has received €1,200,000 from the State. The Cairo & Fulton Railroad,—with a land- grant 800 by 70'miles,~open from Argents to | more in Arkeness, excep Eensett, 49 miles, and expected to be opened be- | dysentery. fore frost from near Little Rock to 8t. Lcnis. ‘When completed, it will be 880 miles long, and | Cavelier La similitude, becsuss it appeared while the subject was still alive, Sy In Wetmore's *“Gazetieer of RMissouri” for 1897, there is a capital story, ascribed to areal career, called “~* The Dead -Husband,—fore- running, with more teality, but less dramatio art, the stamp of Bret Harte's outiaw sketches. | Tht same literal treatment and dry humor ap- pear, and the characters are Arkansans of the early period. Fg=_ Y . 4 The war of Becession in this Btate is related in amngniine paper (Harper's, volume 33), by J. C. Abbott; and the roster and workof the Union regiments, by Adjntant General A. W, Bishop, ina report published at the expense of Congress.- No adequate book or paper on this subject has yet np%enrtd. ‘“The Life -of the Notorious Desperado, Cul- len Baker,” edited by his brother-in-law, who killed him at last, is & current pamphlet at Lit- tleRock, This fellow must have been the worst demon in the State, and no State had worse demons. The above ia gll I have found, not_veferred to in'the body of this article, fo reward curiosity upon the State'of Arkansas. But anybody who can bave time for_access_to the files.of the old Slate Gazelle st Little Rock, fand will consulf fome of the old men about to perish there, may write & book to deserve the thanks of sociol- ogists, and benefit_Arkansss by setting the mir- ror before its people. A thankless task is often the truest, and nltimately the best appreciated. “A vory complote account of the riversof Ar- Lansas I to be had in the report of the Chief of Engineers, Secretary of War's Documents, 1871. & %e Discovery of the Great West,” by Park- man, relates the first occupation of Arkansas Poat. THE FIRST WHITE MEN to tread the soil of the State were DeSoto's par- ty, in the year 1541, He crossed within thirty mmiles of the town of Helens, broke up his boats for the nails and iron in them, and marched northwestward across the Arkansas ‘“bottoms” for five days, to an Indian town on the banks of White River. It was in the month of May, and the fields were full of corn. Two miles above this town, on the same river, he erected the est pine-tree croge which Powell transfers, in is painting, to the Diecoveryof the Missiasip- pi.” He marched also south to the River Saline and discovered salt, fought a battle with In- dians mear: the- Littlo Missouri, and con- tinued to the Upper _Arkansas, near the future Fort Smith, where he went into win- ter quarters. Here died De Soto's interpreter, Jusn.Ortis, Early in the spring he marched the whole breadth of the State to the hmmaigg, recrossed it, and, about the 5th of Jume, 1542, he died, 20 miles below the mounth of the Arkan~ sas, His successor, Luis de Moscoso, recrossed Arkaneas to the Red River corner, was lost in Texas, and a fourth time the despairing band travelled the breadth of the State back again to the mouth of 'the Arkansas River, pursued and smbuscaded by Indisns. Here, reduced by death to 850 men, they bullt seven_brigantines, and launched down the ‘“Rio Grande,” or Mis- siesippi, July 2, 1643. > Thus Arkansas was occupied more than two disseminate this information in | years by white men, above three hundred and thirty years ago. MARQUETTE IX AREANEAS. In the summer of 1673, after an interval of one ‘bundred and thirty years, the priests, Marquette snd Joliet, went ashore at the mouth of the Ar- kansas River, and bad a fish-bake with the In- dians, arfish, perhaps, or buffalo-fiah, or catfish. The Arkansas Indisns, farther down, said that they had no Spanish fire-arms, like the Mississippi Indians, and were afraid of them. From this Arkansas village, 700 miles aboye the mouth of the Mississippi, Marquette and Joliet, and their five boatmen, the second discoverers of the Mississippi, returned to the Illinois River and Chicago. Nothing h’npémnaa to Marquette that he got the SALLE'S VISIT TO AREANBAS. or early March, 1682, allo, & Norman, snd Robert A In Febru Henr de describe the longest disgonal possible in the | Tonty, an Italian officer (from whose father's Btate. It should have been finished by contract, July 1, 1872, to Little Rock. The Arkansas Centrsl Railroad,—40 miles | pant completed, and £300,000 received from the State. theory of life insurance we get the word Ton- tine), with twenty-three Frenchmen and_thirty- one Indians of both sexes, thres being children, direct from Chicago with boats, and down. the Illinois, to the month of the Alississippi. To run from Helena to Little Bock and Pine | Nearly all this party went ashore near the mouth Blafl. The Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroud,— opened only 49 miles sbove Little Rock, and at Lewisburg connecting with stesmers and stages for the Indian Territory. About as much more of the Arkansas, and partook of the hospitclity of the Quspaw Indians, who possessed domestic fowls and tame geese, and were *a lively, civil, enerous people.” Hymns were sung; one en- amsilstic ‘man shonted, * Vive l¢ Roi!” mean- ing Louis XIV.; and two of the native Arkansans of this reilzond is enid to bo graded. It has re- | pilofed the parly down the Mississippl, Thess oeived §900,000 frum the State. ians Charleyoix subsequently ct I’ Hommes, and said they were the tallest and The Helena & Iron Mountain Railroad,—an | best-formed in Americs. armof Allen & Maynard's St. Louis Bailroad; has a grant of 300,000 acres, and county bonds to the amount of £500,000. DE TOKTY'S ABEANEAS CQLONY. Nearly all current books state that Arkansas was first settled at- Arkansas Post, in the year 1685, Thisis true only in & qualified sense. The above are the only railroads to which any | Mr. Francis Parkman, the latest _suthority, says reference is made in the official time-tables of | that it was in 1688 A rather gushing sdvertising | Of. the country. pamphlet upon Arkansas—the only book extant that Tonty, going to tho relief thelost La Salle, returned from his unsuccess- ful mearch, to the - villages of tho Arkansas, where some of his men volunteered to remain. pretending to give anyaccountof the Btate—:| e loft six of them, and of this number were enumersates, however, seventeen rallways, wild- csat or otherwise, and eaya that the Little Rock & Pine Bluff Road has 1aid 60 miles of track; the Mississippi, Quachits & Red River, 43miles; the Memphis & Kansas City has 40 miles graded, etc., Couture and De Launsy. Thigis the date of the settlement of- the Arkansas Post, if settle- ment it can be called. The following {e_&r 1687, the survivors of La Salle's party—their loader murdered on the way, snd eath avenged upon the assasains—crossed _the subsequent etc. In short, ssys this advertiser, Arkansas | Stateof Arkansasfrom the Red River to the will have jfour thousand miles of rail when all these seventoen roads are done. THE SOURGES OF INFORMATION. 1 dont know that I can render better service, or be more interesting, in any way, than by sketching the history of this wild Stafe for Taz .Cricaco TRIBUNE,—the result of more lsbor and perseverance with. In the first place, let me direct the reader to whatever literature exists upon Arkansas: The list of books in this direction is small in- Lower Arkansag, > Ls Salle had been murdersd near the River Trinity, of Texes. Tho story of the murder was related by the survivors to the man Couture, & enter of Ronen, France, and he took it down at the time it was told; and thus the little Indizn freak of some Frenchmen to lead a savage life made one of them an histori- than the work will be credited | 981 suthority. The comrades of La Balle, says Paa;kinm, « gpprosched the River Arkansss at s point not far above its junction with the Mississippi. Led ey by their Indian guides, they, traversed o ok doed, snd T oppend some memoranda upon all | ghuricy’ gr*” glaing * wnd woods, . and 7 stood at_ len on the borders of the syesautcesof Arkinens: By James ¥, Hen: | stream. Nestled bonoath tho forests of the far- the | ther shore, Little Rock, 1872." Thiais 5_pamphlet of pages, written by a well-meaning friend of present State Government. It 18 cheerfnl and ardent, and cheap besides. Address the aunthor st Little Rock. % Geological Reconnoissance of Arkanges: Mede during the year 1857-'60, by David Dale Ovwen, and E, T. Cox, Assistant.” This is the ‘best monnment extant to the old State Govern- ment prior to the Rebellion, 1t contains nearly 700 pages of feld-notes, chemical analysos of soils, illustrations, etc., and takes rank a3 a con- scientious performance with any similar book in the country. E- N:Conway was Governor when this work was undertikay, -and he selected Mr. Ovwen. Itis & fair ing 28 to whether .an Ad- _ministration which left one such work -has_not been the best in porformsnce which the Btate ever bad. SET R § “Scenes and Adventires in the Semi-Alpine Regions of the Ozark Mountains.of Missonri and Arkansas, which was first traversed by DeSoto in 1541. By Henry B. Schoolcratt.” This is a delightful book of simple-hearted ad- Sentures across the Arkansas line, made in the ‘boyhood of o noble career. - It was preceded by s lzondun publication’'of the -same “adventures, entitled “Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkensas, 1821.” Schooleraft also Wrote a poem, probably the first ever composed in the State (1618), “in a cave in the wilderness of Arkeneas,” which wes published in the Lettres Reposilory in . In this there scems to be an imimfiion of the homicidal habits of the pioneers be had seen there: Genius of caverns, drear and wild, Hear 3 suppliant, wandering child, Ono who spills ot on the plain Blood for sport or worldly gain. Like his red barbarian kit they saw the lodges of a large Indian fown ; and here, as they gazed across the broad current, they presently descried an object which perved their spent limbs, and thrilled their homesick hearts with joy. It wasa tall wooden cross, and near it was & emall house, built evi- dently by Christian hands. With one accord they fell on their knees, and raised their bands to Heaven in thanksgiving, ~Two mep, in Eu- ropesn dress, issued from the door of the house, ana fired their guns to salute the excited travel~ Jers, who, on their part, replied with a volley. Canoes put ont from the farther ghore and fel ried them to_the_town, where they were wel- comed by Couture and De Launay, two of Tonty's followers.” ¥ At'this spot, they ate corn-bread sud dried ‘buffslo mest. ' Aug. 1, in & wooden canoe, they passed doyn the Misslssippi. Ten of the white men remained behind, 28 well a8 & Paris gamin .pamed Barthelmy. From these whites and their savage concubings, Sprang & race of half-breeds whose descendants existed in 1819, when Mr. Nuttall ascended the Arkansas. WHERE SETTLED. The first troe settlement was made 2t the 01d French Post on the Arkansas, a few miles below the bayou which communicafes with the White River.. Annoyed by rats, and repeatedly inun- dated, they-moved to the present Post,” which is the oldeat town in the Btate. I suspect the date to have been 1719 to 1721. THE FRENCH IN AREANSAS. Tt is customary withus to suppose_that the drift of emigration was from Eeet to West, but Arkansas was settled from the Gulf by military advancing northeastward. 'The parent French colony was ot . Mobile and around the mouth of the Mississippi, planted by Iberville in 1699. The next year the one-handed De Tonty «An Account of a Voyage up the Arkansas in | descended from the Canadisn colonies, on the 1819, by Thomas Nutall, & Naturalist.” This Tllinois, to meet him. In 1711, Louisiana cut ool ie Jong out of print, and very scarce. Ttis | loose from Canade altogether, and thereaftor the written in & patient, philosophic spirit, Philsdelphian of the former time, and con- tains social notes more valuable now than its scientific suggestions. = In De Bow's Commercial Review for 1848 are two articles,—one celled * Northern Louisiana | 1720, Bernard de 1a Harpo 2nd Arkaness,” by R. M. Bry; another celled | Natsoo, “Nortbern Arkansas and 1t Natural Advan- tage The writer of the former DarT? des cri lb:lg‘ tga last who wrote one. imothy Flint, n months . about the year 1820, published “Recollections of the Mississippi Valley,” aleo & plain history and_geograply of the same country, in 1826; very little is said sbout Ar- kaneas. his worthy of { Louisianians began 1o otour says that he never wet witha | Chartres _was tion of the route pursued. He was prob- | below St. Louis, lant posts on_sil tha large tributaries of the Mississippi, to keep off the Spanieh and English, .and moderate the In- dieps. ‘Thus they planted & pogton the Washite, south of the Arksnsas line, in 1713 ; and; sbout lanted the post of 200 miles above the Great Raft, in what is now Hempstead County, Arkansas: About the _time, the grent stome Fort was built _in Illinois, - 40 miles occupying eighteen months to putit up. The Freneh population probabl; who resided in Arkapeas a few | pushed up the Washita and Red Rivers, an their coureurs du bois and runners passed across and | the country, and took peltrics, salt, buffalo, and deer from the wilds of Arkansa3; From this State, Bornard de la Harpe departed to_colonize Texas, which the Spanieh aleo occupied in 1720. Y A tto publiched, in 1846, a | In this year, slavos were brought direct from 2 Dl::mJ ‘3.23 igim:?t{'?:s; “H%mory ‘of the Valley | Africa to sow the seed of & social empire which of the Missiesippi,” which alludes necesearily to Arkaness, bt thinly. # The most eatisfactory statement of the State debt, new and old, is to be found in the Minor- ity Bu-Elux Report, sigoed by T. M. Henke, native Congressman, of Helena. It is Houso Document Keport No. 22, volume 1, Forty-see- 'ond Congress; Sccond Session. . Although™ with isan references, it is explicit in figures, and &sworm to. ghould last nearly a hundred and fifty years. ‘While Anthony Cuzet, posscesed the trading and mining monopoly of the Mississippi Valley, 5, Arkaneas was dug_over between 1712 and 1715, in many’ places to find precious metals. ~When of the ‘DMississippi John Law, creator Bubble,” ruled France through _ his omnivorously-borrowing _ bank, “n West- orn Company” was formed, to colonize the Missiesippi Valley; and the same year in e Decporadoes of the NewWorld." A series of | which Now Orleans was foundcd, 1718, witnessed chapters of crimo in_Arkansas, published in | the granting of an 1845, and still in print. These are crude snd meretricions in style, but they relate, more ex- feitly than Arkansas criticiem will allow, what fieu, Iynchings, and villanies were done'in tho Btate thirty years sgo. The book is of the catchpenny kind, but we have no siternativo; wnd the sketch of Kent Toland, the Arkansas desperado-editor must have had some vori- enormous’ tract of land, iwelve miles -8quare, on tho Arkansas River, to Tow himeelf. - At the same time, Bernard de la Harpe, got & large grant borderiag on the Red River corner of Arkaness. Le Harpe explored the State from the Post of Arkansas to the In- dian Territcry and Texas. LAW § GERMAN BETTLEMENT. In 1721, an attempt was made to colonize the e Arkansas Red River and the Upper Arkansas. In March, 1722, Jobn Law eent 200 Germans over to Arkansas Post, vig Mobile, They set- tled around the Post, 60 miles above tho Missis- sippi, and others occupied the small prairies nearly as far up as Little Rock, Forty of these gettlers remained until Law's acheme failed, in 1723, when they had prepared to leave the country. The peoplo of New. Orleans, however, perauaded them to settle anew 20 miles above that city, on what was celled the German “Const; there their descendants etill remain. MAGDALENA SETTLEMENT. ‘Women were &leo sent over to Arkansas and neighboring parts from the hospitals and houses of correction of Paris, suchas the Salipelriere. That affecting and rather immoral novel of the Abbe-Prevost, called ““Manon Lescant,” refers to one of these poor lorettes: The Arkansas 0Ozarks were mined snd tuneled for gold and silver to sustain Lane's ridiculous scheme of finance. AREANBAS BECOMES SPANISH, In 1763, ihe French Empiro fell before the English colonists; and, the ssme year, by the terms of = sccrot treaty, the King of Spain pos- sessed Arkansas. To get out of English juris- diction, many French crossed from the East gide to the Arkansas shore. In 1801, the King of Spain ceded all this territorry to the King of France, who gold it in 1803 to the United States for twelve millions of dollars, plus four millions of claims sassumed ' by the United- States and never pnid. The price of Arkansas then to the Americans may be said tohave been about three millions of dollars. Next againat her to the west was & Spanish colo- ny, with San Antonio forits chief town. Prior to the purchase, several Americans had crossed over and becomé_Spanish subjects or accopted Bpanish protection, and in this way DMoses Austin, of Coonecticnt, seeking o prosecuts mining in the Ozark Mountains, derived that knowledge of the land and its masters which enabled him to found with & Spanish grant the American State of Texas. ABEANSAS POST IN THE OLD TIME. An account of this old postis tobe had ina London publication by Captain Philip Pittman, bearing date 1770. It is entitled “*The Presen State of the European Settlements on the Mis- sigeippi.” The book was written a few years after the retirement of the French and Spanish from the Ohio posts to their new line of posts on the great river, and was designed to convey military information to the author's Govern- ment. At that time tho *“Post of Arcansas™ was, with one exception, tho solitary softlement g{ civilized beingsin the limits of ‘the present tate. 1t was, according to this account, three leagues up the Arksnsas, and was & 8tockade of regular form, bastioned, the sides only 180 feet inlength, and three-pounders guarded tho flanks and faces of each fastion. Within the fort were s com- mander's house, & barrack with thres rooms for the men, o powder—mniazme provision-maga- zino, and_commissary-sbed. The fort was 200 yards from the water-side, and the land was Cleared around it to the depth of 900 yards. It was held by & French Captain and » Lisutenant, and by 80 I'rench _soldiers, including Corporals and Sergeants. Eight houses, occupied by eight families, were attached to the fort, and these people sent buffalo and bear meat, fat, and gkins to New Orleans o be sold. The stockade was in aruinous condition, being at the time more than 50 years old. Three leagues above the fort, at the rivor-eide, were three villages of # Arcansas or Inapan Indians,” numbering 600 warriors, smongst tho bravest of all the aborig- ines, and they waged war with the tribes to the weat of them as far a8 the River Bravo. Amongst these Indians many Chickasaws, and some of the extinguishod confederacy of Natchez Indians, had been adopted. The Natchez had been the noblest warriors_in the Bouthwost, but the Fronch had rnined them. The French garrison was on good terms with the Indiana. ARKANSAS IN 1803, An abstract of documenta addressed to Presi- dent Johnson, relative to Louisiana, was pub- lished in book-form in London, in 1804. It stated that there were few Indians resident be- tween the Red and Arkansas Rivers. There were then 260 only of the Arkanses tribe, attached to the French in friendahip, and resdy to fight in their bebalf against the hostile Chickasawa. Their firat village was 18 leagues up the Arkan- eas Biver, the next three leagues farther -up, and the the third six lesgues. The scarcity o gam esat of the Missiscippi frequently brought over the Choctaws, Cherokecs, and Craeks, some of whom had married the women of the Arkan- sas tribe. The civilized s)o;ullfinn consisted of 835 whites, 45 slaves, and 5 free blacks. There were, besides, botween the St. Francis River and the Mississippi, some vagabond Indians, who disturbed passing boats. LIEUTENANT PIKE UP THE ARRANEAS. The French had ascended the Arkaneas far shove little Roek a8 early as 1702. Lientenant T. B. Pike was the first American official to strike the Upper Arkansse, advancing from the head of navigation on the Osage. It was the 8th' dsy of October, 1806,—Jefferson, Presi- dent. Oct. 28, he detached a Lieutenant, Ber- geant, and four men to descend the Arkansss in Canoes, made_ of buffalo snd elk skins. This party consisted of Lieutenant James B, Wilkin- son, Sergeant Joseph Ballenger, Interpreter Ba- rony Vasquez, and privates Boley, Bradley, Hud- dleston, and Wilson. They made the descent of the miver in eafety, and arrived at New Orlesns some time in 1807. This probably was the first party of Americans to traverse the whole width of the future State. In the autumn of 1817, amongst the current paragraphs of news, appozra the following : “Major Bradford has left St. Louis to estab- blish » military post on the Arkansas River, near the Osage Indian boundary line.” B This was the establishment of Fort Smith, the water-gate to the Indian Territory. FINIS. In another letter, I shall deecribe Arkansas as an American Territory and State. GATE, A STATEMENT. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sir: In to-dsys's issue of your paper, I ob- serve an article headed, “Compelled to Die- gorge,” where my name is conspicuously men. tioned as the * Harrison Street Lawyer,” and as my béing the means of encoursging & swindle upon an emigrant. ‘As I wish this to be contradicted, and not have myname brought betore the publicin such away, snd in the light of & swindler, I will give you the details of the transaction: On Wednesday last, about noon, Mr. Lansing,— who, by the way, is, and has been, a customer of mine for some time,—came to me and requested me to do a favor for him. He was accompanied by two men, ons of whom was Mr. Volmuth, the complainant, and the other his friend. Idid ot stop to inquire the nature of the request, bt tnlxhiml ‘would do what I conld for him, taking into consideration that he wasa cus- tomer of mine, and entitled to ‘such at my hends. He then efilniflcd ta me that he wished to borrow £400 of Mr. Volmuth, one of the men, and requested me to make out a ote for such. T did g directed, not thinking of the proper form of making out such. They were both sat- - isfied with the same, and I gave it no further thought, not knowing at the time that I was to be tie victim and theme for a scandal. Mr. Lansing then bought a box of cigars, and Mr. Volmuth bought another, through the solicita- tions of his %riend, and 80 tho matter was set- tled. Either the reporter's or Mr. Volmuth's state- ment is incorrect, for I was not introduced as a lawyer, as the article goes to show. Iam inno- cent of any complicity in the affair; and, as I do not wish my friends or the public to miscon- strue my true character a8 an honest and law- abiding citizen into_thatof an unecrupnlous swindler, 03 you mske me out to be, I ask you to give this vindication space in your coulumns, in order to exonerate me from any cum;llclty in the case, as far as swindle is concerned. By &0 doing, you will much oblige, yours truly, TLLIAM GOODEIND. Caicaco, Oct, 22, 1872, S st N A Thorn in the Flesh. Front the Carlisle (Ky.) Mercury. Sixty-one years ago Mr. Willimm Wirtmsn, & well-known “citizen of Bath County—he ihen being quite a young man—run & thorn into his foot, below hia ankle, from which he suffered considerably. As it wetit deep, tho attempt of the physicians to extract it caused him excruci- ating pain—so much so that it was deemed best to desist from further attempt, for fear lock- jaw might ensue. The thorn remained in the foot, and in course of time the wound made by it bealed up. The apain ceased, and after that he experienced no inconveni- ence from walking on the foot. Timo paseed ou, and he thought no more of the matter Tntil last week, when, feeling an itching sensa- tion in the leg just below tho kneo, he scratched the part, when the skin loosened and gave way, and, to his surprise, a dark speck was visible. He caught hold of it with his thumb and fore- finger, and pulling ab it out came the thorn. It had Been imbodded sixty-one years, and had nde its way that far up his leg, coming outon The.wido opposite to that in which it entered. And we will add that the thorn when it came out was a8 souud as when it went in. All the above is strictly true, 8s our informant is & trust- worthy gentleman who received the information direet from Mr. Wirtman THE HORSE-DISEASE. Prevalence of the Epidemiiz in Buffalo. Over Two-Thirds of the Horses in the City Sick. The Streets Almost Deserted by Velticles, and Business Much Embarrassed. i From the Buffalo Evpress, Oct. 22, L The extent of mankind's dependence upon | equine assistance is being vividly brought to view by the widespread demoralization which exists in Buffalo in congequence of the presence of the Canada horse epidemic disease. The de- eerted appearance of the streets yesterday woulds have impressed a stranger with a sense of unus- ual quietude. The streets were full of people, but there Was an almost painful absence of yehi- cles. The diseaso, which at first was supposed to ba merely o passing ailment, has demonstrat- ed adegroe of miachiof which amounts to a pos- itive public disaster. Over two-thirds of the borses in the city are now sick, and of the re- ‘muinder 2 large majority have Gomo, symptoms of the epidomic. One experienced horsemen gave it a8 his opinion yesterdny that not one- quarter of the horses on the streets were fit to be used. The running nostrils and harsh cough —first symptoms—certainly indicated the pres- ence of the disease on almost every etreet and in every part of the city. There was but one common topic_of conversation among the City peoplg yesterday, and that was ‘“horse dis- enge.” The veterinary surgeons have been luept busy dey and night sight since last Thursday, and hundreds of cases—some severe and some very mild—have been treated by them. IMr. Wm. Somorville, on Erie etreet, has had batween 800 and 900 cases on hand, not one of which. has proved fatal. All of the stroot railroad hor'ses are now under bis care. Mr. 8. Somervjille, whose establishmont is on the Terrance, has treated nearly 200 cases. All of tho Fire De- partment horses are boing treated by him. Mr. Willam Somerville was absent from the city yesterday, having gone to Toronto for the purpose of studying the symptoms and methoxis for curing the diseage. THE STREET RAILROADS. ‘The effects of this singular distomper are falt by the public most_severely, probably throught the Stroet Railroad Compasly, which has beor afflicted sorely. Wo wore informed yesterdsy afternoon that every horse owned by the com- pany was sick. There wero sixty undor treat- ment at the Mein strest barn, and over forty at the Ningara street barn yesterdsy sfternoon, and doubtless all of the animals used on the road wera affected in some degree. Several cars have been withdrawn for the time being, and instead of the regular five minutes and a balf time, there is now an interval of fif- teen minutes befween the cars, and fears are en- tertained of a still more unfavorable change. Should the weather turn out rainy the few horees that aronow in mse would be unfit for duty. Last evening nearly every street car was crowded to its utmost, and the harses were noticable for their coughing and unnaturslly weak condition. The ofticers of the company &re making every effort possible to accommodsate the public in epite of their serious embarrassments. If by the urchese of fifty extra horses the difficulty could @ Overcome, we are informed, the animals would be secured without delay. But it is evident that to buy fresh horses now would be to sdd only to the number of subjecta for the inevitablo disease. With & few exceptions there has been a general suspension of businesa by the propriotors of the livery stables since last Thuraday. Reporters of the Express visited all of the principal stables in the city yesterday and elicited the following facts: Charles W. Miller, Pearl streat—Fifty horses in the barn, all sick, some very seriously, and none able to work. 3 X Richard Callaban, Washingion street—Thirty horses in the stable, all sick and business eus- pended. 4 Mings & White, Chippews street—Thirty-five horaes, all sick, business suspended. Stevenson, Washington street—Thirty horses sick ; part of them used & very little. Goorge E. Efner, Franklin street—The only livery stable in the city that is not seriously embarrassed. Forly-three horses in the bard and all well with perhaps five or six . exceptions. G. E. Matteson, Niegara strest—Thirty horses more or less afected. Four seriously sick. C. F. Miller, Ternco—Thirtg»eigbt horses in tho stable, and all sick and unit for driving: Level & Frelick, Ellicott street—Business sus- pended. Thirty-four horses under trestment for the disease. Pierce & Polley, stables on Bwan street and Michigan street—Seventy horses more or less lfiech&d" Not over six or eight borses permitted to go oat. . W. & R. Daniels, Michigan streot—Twenty-~ one horaes sick. J. C. Stanfield, Michigan_strest—Eighteen horaes ailing mord or less, and not fit to work. Charles Stewart, Pear] streot—Eleven horses sick since Thursday, apparently recovering. PRIVATE STABLES. . The proud owners of fine carrisgs and buggy horses were ~very generally bemoaning their “epidemical " misfortunes yesterday. The larg- est private stables are all more or less affected by ‘o disease, and among tha down-town busi- ness men there was & very small percentage who were so fortunste as to ride in their us: con- Voyances. In the atable of ono of our wealth- 168 citizous, we aro informed, thst there are no Joss than 555,000 worth of horses sick with this disease. THE HACEMEN. Out of about one hundred licensed hackmen, there were, yesterdsy, not more than ten on the streets. The public “stands” have been entire- 1y deserted for the past three days, and the trav- elling portion of our community arecompelled to walk to and from the depot, with their trunks in 2 hand-cart, or on their shoulders, or perhaps in & wheelbarrow. v The sick horses are distributed throughout the numerous bcs.\'din% stables in the city. Tn Kraft's barn _on Blossom street there were soventeen quite sick vesterdsy. Jea. YWescott's stable, corner of Carroll and Wells street con- tained thirteen. MMr.H.J. Fox has six in his barn, and there is not a boarding stable in Buf~ falo that bas nof one or more casee. 01d and experionced liverymen inform ua that thiere are between Seventy-iive and ninety hacks Inidup at the present {ime. The only desth that we hear of in this class is that of a horse owned by Mr. Clinton Besbe, which died Sunday. THE OMNIBUS COMPANY. 2 This company has been obliged to stop work for the past two or three dnys, owing to the dis- ability of all of the horses. ~ The barn on Green street was full of sick animals yesterday, and some of them ware reported very sick indeed. One death occurred Sunday and another yester- day morning. There are thirty-eight horses suffering from the disease, almost all of which are in the company's barn, the remsinder being on Mr. Tylers farm. Yesterday fifty -oxtra horses were_secured, and the business of the company will be resumed to-day. CANAL HOBSES AND MULES. Fnrf,\mntelifor the canal traffic the epidemic seems not to have extended as yet to the horses and mulesused by canal boatmen. - Visits paid to seversl of the canal stables in the lower part of tha city, by one of the Ezpress reporters yes- terday, reveeled the fact that very few of the animais used on the towpath have been tronbled swith the disease. Wherever & case manifested iiself grest caro bas boen tafen to got_tho sick horse away from the others as & precaution against the spreading of the ailment, which is pronounnced by medical men as contagious. THE TRUCKMEN. i The epidemic has seriously affected the cart- men, compelling a large number of them to sug-: pend work. Mr. J. G. Coons, one of the princi- pal men in this class of business, bas stopped work entirely in consequence of the sickness of bis horses, twelve in number. Three died Sun- day and yosterday. Ao Forrace, whereon & large aumber of the truckmen most do congregate, was deserted yesterdsy, and wo hear of several instances ‘where merchants were seriously annoyed at not being able to secure transportation for their goods sold or purchased during the day. In case this complaint becomes worse there i8 no knowing what the consequences will be, as there is a large amount of freight in store and ware- house now awaiting transportation. CONDITION OF THE EXPRESS HORSES. Almost all of the fin horses owned by the ex- press companies are sick. The barn on Ex- change snd Carroll streets Iast night did not con- tain n single well animal. There were twenty- soven horges sick, abont three-fourths of which woro totally nnfit for use. During the day, the warm weather being considered rather beneficial than otherwise, some of the least afflicted ani- mala wero put fo wagons for short trips, nd b riving slowly, it is thought they were worke without injury: Lastnight each of the express Corpanies was working only one horse. ANTMALS BELONGING TO THE CITY. A Jarge number of the horses connected with the Fire Depattment are suffering from the epi- demic in & mild degree, but no serious em- To th eEditor of The Chicago Tribune : “will amount to $11,000,00 ‘barraesment in the working of the in appretended. - &9] o Densctitent e police borses were slso sick." 3 and search was being made at mzty‘;i?;g:{é for & medium of propulsion for tho moted Black Maria. THE PARMERS, 2 .- From what our reporters were able to learn by inguiring smong the farmers, littlo or no knowl. edge of . the. sgxdemxc, prevails in the conntry hereabouts. Wherever there is pesturage the horses seem to be all right, ‘A few cases are re- ported where farmers, having driven in from the country early in the morning, found their horses, sick in'the barn later in the day. Quite 2 num. ber of sick animals belonging to mon-reside nt farmers were under treatment in the.boarding- stables in the vicinity of Seneca 2nd Michigan atraets, last night. 3 ITS EFFECT ON BUSINESS. Whesever horseflosh has hertofore been used to facilitate propulsion or transportation, the cffects of this_epidemic are boing felt with in- cressing severity. Al dealers in salable goods find the absence of their horse or horses an al- most unbearable catastrophe. Provision mer- chants are embarrassed for means to convey their staple ariicles of traffic from place to place. Goal denlors sre alroady graduslly sus- pending the delivery of coal, 2nd the seme mis- ‘fortune is borns by lumber dealers, buichers, and, in fact, every class of - tradesmen, Some of the horses used by contractors for drawing stone, dirt, timber, etc., were taken sick yester- -day, and should tho diseese sprend smong them serious pecuniary damsge is likely to ensue. THE EXTENT AND PROSPECTS. ‘We are not inclinied to indulge in the least bit of sensational exaggeration in relation to the disease, neither do we wish to aid in spreading abroad untruthful and damaging rumors. The fact is apparent that & very large majority of the horses of Buffalo are atpresent incapacitated for work, and there is undoubted prospect that to-day and to-morrow will see an increase of the distemper, Pedestrianism by compuision will be the ruling fashion for & few days at least, but there need be no fears of extended fatal results, 80 long a8 the sick animals are given timely and proper treatment. —_——E e NEBRASKA. Address of the Liberal State Central Committees To the Liberal Voters of Nebraska : After & careful review of tholate State elec- tions, the Liberal Stata Central Committee find in the reault, by a renowed effort, cheerful indi= cations of final triumph for our cause, and ur- gontly call upon all who are opposed to fraud and corruption in State and General Govern- ment, to relax no effort in purging the body litic of these self-confessed and growing evils. reo institutions on this continent are being placed in imminent peril. Our Republican form of Government is fast becoming a shadow with- out tho substance. The elective franchise, which, under the Constitution, is_the sole pre- nogative of the citizen—the palladium of Ameri- csn liberties—has been unscrupuloasly assailed, violated, and trampled upon. The most daring and stapendous frands, having no 6l in the anmals of our country, Wera recently perpetrated in the city which gave birth to the Hepublic. The banner of the dominant party in Pennsylvania is stained =and ~ blotted all over with frandulent registration and illegal votes, and wonld be trailing to-day had & free expression of those only entitled to suffrage been secwred. But, by ant usur- ations of the peoplle’s sacred Hight, tho Repub- ican majority for President in 1868, of 28,898, has nearly been retined for Hartranft, In Ohio, - the Republican msjarity in '68 was 41,428, which is now reduced to leres than 13,000. In Indiana, Hendricks was defexted for Governor in ’68 by 961 votes, and is now elected by about 2,000 ma- jority. The recent elections in Connecticut show large Liberal gains throughout the State. In our own Btate,—like Pennsylvauis, whers proven crime wasno bar to Executive prefer-.| ‘ment on the partof the party in power,—we succumb to an ill-got_triumph for the corrup- tionists. Had -all the Liberal Republicans and Democrats done " their duty; this deplorable re- Bult would not have obtained. Scores of Demo- crats in nearl; evexxu:uunt refrained from vot-* ing; notwithetanding which we hsve made- great inroads upon the ‘succeesful party, reducing _their majorities in many comn- ties, and i others, - against the overwhelming power of official patronsge and thefree and corrupt use of money. Whatever may be the result in this State, the election of Greeley is assured. -The recent election in Geargis, giving an unprecedented and unlooked- for leefl}mgority, makes certain 125 Electoral votes for Greelsy from the Bouthern States, and with reasonable certainty we can add to tnem New York, Connecticut;- New Hampshire, New Jersey, Indisna, Nevads, and California—with 79 votes—making a total of 204, or 20 more than necessary to elect ; we aleo have at least aneven chance in Ohio'and Illinois. To secure these ends, the friends of Reform must ses that the | criminal conduct of the leaders of the dominant party is rebuked throngh the bsllot-box. Free- men of Nebraska ! 83 you value the liberties the ‘| tary father left to us a8 an inneritance, arouss and .| Iabor eamnestly in._the discharge of your whole | duty, and thus aid in restoring to us and poster- ity the Government in its original purity— harmonions in all its parts—administered with honesty and economy. E. A. Aviex, Chsirman Liberal State Central Cornmittee. SMOKING IN THE STREET-CARS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune: Bm: I fally indorse the denunciation, in a re- cent number of your paper, against that intol- erable nuisance, smoking in our strect-cars, apd. 1.cannot see why the practice is allowed. The owners of the cars evidently deem it a nuisance, 28 they have made an attempt, by means of no- tices posted up, to confine the smokera to ‘‘the three rear seats.” But why, I ask, permit an of- fensive practice on any part of the cars? Others besides smokers are often obliged to get on the rear seats, and among them, frequently, ladies have to sit, when the other seats happen to be filled; and yet your smoker, perfectly in- different to their presence, puffs away self-com- placently, sending s small clond_occasionally in their faces, Butmore; the limited prohibition i8 constantly violated, and men may bo seen any day, with their cigars and pipes, on any of the seats. I was forced, a short time ago, to leave a one-horse car on Btate street, to avoid inhalin the smoka and odor of an inferior cigar whi & fellow was puffing by my side. - Ionce saw a lady on one of ‘“the three rear sests” between two smokers. Well, she grin- ned and bore the insult for some time, but at length made her escape by betaking herself to another part of the car, when asett had be- come vacant. I will not attempt to. describe what manner of men your car-smokers are, but one " thing is certain: they are nof gendlemen, for the distinguishing mark of a gentleman is deference to others, and of this your car-smoker..| is utterly devoid. ‘That the great msss of those who ride on the cars should suffer snnoyance. b the few-who smoke is simply an outrage, and i for one, hereby enter my- protest sganstit, I have ies declare that they had aban- doned the cars in consequence of the indulgence allowed to emokers. - It is only s fow minutes- that men remain in the cars, and they surely would not suffer by keoping their pipes sn: cifim out of their mouths for that short time. @ car-companies ehould st once’ adopt’ a strict rule 'fimhl iting the practice, and I feel persuaded they would ‘be the gainers in the receipt of nickels, and, moreover, receive the thanks of the gnbhn. : A BUFFEREB. OsrcAco, Oct. 22, 1872. DENVER, COL. DxyvER, Col., Oct. 12,1872 S1r: I'herewith give -you s statementof the financial condition of our county and city, with the assesament rolls for 1871 and 1872 = Valuation of property nssessed in 1871..... $9,169,869.00 Tevy for County, Territory, School, Tailroad taxés, 2 per cen 183,897.38 Amonnt collected on same. 16142045 The above showe s delinquency, which has been occasioned by the taxing of lands granted to railroads, and also of our National Banks, of which taxes our laws would not warrant collec- tion, and the same were, therefore, sbated. rt; Leyy, 7 mills, ‘Amount callécted on same, which also leaves a delinguency, most of which, however, is available, and can be collected. Our county valuation, 88 per assessment roll for 1872,—which is not as g‘at quite complete,— or $12,000,000, and our city will amount to over $7,000,000. Our County, School, and Intereat on Railroad Bond tax (which lovy has not as yeb been made will not amount to raore than 18 or-20 mills, an our city 8 mills; which, altogether, putting it high, will not be more than 2 8-10 per cent. We haveno Tertitorial tax thie year, 88 We have now money enough in the Treasury to pay our debts for the next year:, i Our county owes about 490,000 railroad bonds, of which we are retiring more orless ‘afforded by it the colleges for young men. each year, Our flosting county debt pmger will it t0 $20,000 or S%,m,‘whichwifl e paid in texes this year. Fl gt .~ X think this ghows well for this barren, isolat~ ed county, as it is looked upon. Our city will, I think, show s population of 10,000 or 12,000 “habitants ;-our strost-are well Tighted -with gas ‘we have the Holly water works, and a street ‘Tailroad in full operation, and, taking all ip all, :t[o txl;mk we have a good and prosperous Terri- AWHISKEY SUIT. Liquor Destroyed to Prevent its Falle ing into the Hauds of Indians. From the St. Louig Republican, Oct. 18, A suit was brought in the'St. - Louis Circuit Cours: at the October term by the owners of tha steamner Flirt, George J. Hazlett, Hiram K. Haz- lett,xnd Joseph H. Coon against Durfee & Peck, owners of Fort Peck, a large Indian trading Jost. The post is aifuated at the junction of ilk River with the Missouri, in Montana Torri- tory, about 500 miles below Fort Benton. The BRI parties are also owners of a line of steam- ers, carrying their own goods, The plaintifts allege that early in October, 1871, the steamer Flirt, bound for Fort Benton with & cargo of goods, on arriving at Fort Peck, found it impossible to proceed further onsccqunt of the low stage of the water, and that the boat pnt in shore ot that point and unloaded 68 barrels of whiekey, 50 10-gallon kegs of the same liguor, 80 cans of alcohol, and'5 barrels of bottled ale, and Jeft thesamo incharge of the sgent of Durfee & Peck, taking his receipt therefor. They allege_ that the whiskey was totally de- stroyed, and hold Durfee & Peck responsible for it, their sgenta having §ivan 5 receipt for the _safe-keeping - an delivery of the goods, The ~ defendsnts allege that the receipt for the goods was given without authority, and that they were destroyed by the Government officers under direct orders from the Interior Department at Washington. Major drew J. Simmons, the Government agent in o of the Milk Biver Indi Agency, and the Indians under his supe: on, during his etay in the city, gave his deposition in the case. Mr. Simmons testified that it is his duty gene- rally as Indian agent, under the laws of the United States, to arrest all ies heving liquors in their posgession in the Indian Territory; to seize the liguors as contraband and to destroy them, and also that the fact of theso liquors beingstored at Fort Peck was re- ported to him by a United Btates detective. It ‘waa also reported to the Interior Department st ‘Washington, and orders were received from the department to destroy the liguors at once. He thereupon ded-to Fort Peck, and on the 18th of November opened all the packages and ured their entiré contents into the river, after aving firat ascertained that Mossrs. Durfee & Peck were in no wise responsible for the pres- ence of the liquor there. He did not seize the steamer , because she had left the point and was out of his reach. Aside from the fact that the presence of the fial‘mrs there was an infringement of the law, there existed ‘s particular reason for their destruction. Major Bimmons was at that time calling in the Teton Bioux to Fort Peck, which was their trading post, for the purpose of holding a council with them. - . The u:tonn for mg;x; .i;m haye been on the ‘war patl makmg a upon posts and gn\nu wve committed a great number of depredations, They had resisted all over- tures for peace; had mnever received any benefit from the United Btates Government, and were particalarly hostile to the whites at that time, for the reason that the Governmenthad ted right of way %z the Northern Pacific Railway through their hunt 3 attacked a corps of About 600 Indians railroad engineers under Colonel Baker, with 400 troops, and & number were killed on both sides. e battle was fought about 100 miles from Fort Peck. Itcommenced at 2 o'clook a. . and Iasted until daylight. The Indians had made such demonstrations at different points so a3 to deter operations on the road. They were coming in, howaver, to hold a council, in re- sponse to the invitation of Major Bim- mons at ~ Fort Peck, and it was feared that if they found the liquors—which wonld very likely have been the case— they would have seized them, and not only de- Zeat.the purposs of the couneil, but destroy the fort and all the whites located there. - There were no troops at that post, nor any ‘whites axce%l: the employes of Durfee & Peck, and a few Indian traders. The Indians came in to the number of several thousand, and the result of the council was the sending of s deputation of Chiefs and braves to “Washington in charge of -Major Simmons, which ‘was the same party that smY‘ped at the Southern and visited the fair last week. ‘The whiskey trafic with the Indians is one of the greatest obstacles the Indian agents haveto contend with in treating with hostile bands. nguors are carried up to the mining districts, and from thence find their way.into the Indian territory, and great numbers of people are en- Exga_d in smuggling it across the lines from the ritish posseseions. . Fort Peck is_now a mili- post, and & gacrison ig stationed there. It is probable from the testtmony siready elicited that the plaintiffa will withdraw their Buit against lea & Peck, and look to the Government for compensation. FRAIL FEMININITY. One Hundred and Fifty Ladies Search= ed for Smuggled Goods. . From the Detroit Fres Press, Oct. 22, Ttis a fact mbabmnu known to the Cus- tom House officials to outsiders that at lesst every tenth woman who crosses the Detroit River carries mnggled goods. The goods may be tes, coffee, socks, thread, ribbons, or some- thing 6lse of greatvalue, but the intent to smug- glo 1S there, and the success in bringing over & small lotis nearly” always an inducement for the smuggler to try the game on & larger scale, Men may and do smuggle clothing now and then, but it is the female sex which carries the burden of gml . The Custom Honse officizls at the fer- xy dock in this city are as vigilant as officers can bo, but what chances have they against monster hoop-skirts and gigantic bustles. They cannot utog topesp under shawls, oxamine pockets, look into blha;:uns end hold 2 crowd on the boat, and so tg ‘must continue their work with the Inowledge that goods ere being smuggled, 32 that Snls ons gand ans cortats kaat oftheis nets can trap the guilty and frighten the inno- cent 8o that they shall never dare to pursue the business. ‘Thenet was drawn yesterdsy. The officers commenced about 2 o'clock,- walking fiftaen or twenty women up stairs into the custom rooms, and handing them over to & woman to be searched. Every bost load which landed, for about three hours, was treated in the same man- ner—that is, all the female portion. Some Wwere m?nn&, and sppealed to their husbands, who vainly appealsd-to the customs officers. Others wantad to faint away, but, after looking at the planks and the dust, concluded not to. Others ‘wept, laughed, or turned pale, but nons of them ‘were permitted o escape. Duringtheafternoon will be paid to modern langusges; more tima will be devoted to Eng eraturo and to msthetica; the physical sciences will be taught 80 23 {0 keep pace with the scientific_and mate- rial progress of the age; yxobubli less atten- tion than inother colleges will be given ta mathematics, but more to ethics and meta- physics ; facilities are to be afforded for the pur- suit of special siudies, and, to sum up, the sys- tem of training will be such gs_to fit young ‘women to become ieachers, not cnly in our Sab- ‘bath schools, Bible classes, and mission sta- tions, but also in our highest institntions of Toerning ; o becomo writers also, mot only of articles for the daily and weekly press, but also of standard books. This is & grand scheme, which it is8afe to say will never be nccom- plished nntil the present available funds are in- creased several fold. We should supposa £2,000,000 in hand would be as little ss would afford reasonsble promise of its accomplish- ment in this goneration. Itis easy enongh to show up the echeme of_a college on paper, but establishing colleges is another matter. We should be heartily glad tosee such a college in Massachusetts, but to represent or imply that it can be done with 9350,000, even if buildings were given for the 58, i8 00 preposterous. On the snbject of founding new colleges, Presi- dent White, of Cornell University, could give thoso who have this matter in charge some veluable'results of experience. PERSONAL. Alphonge Karr has in his Iil the ekull of his once lady-love, and that e‘fx?‘;{rvmt gisl noe torious for robbing him. — Judge Jobn. & Mokenny, of Dagton, Ohio, has resigned, snd the Governor bas sppoint Dl“m . Meeker, of Greene County, in his place. —C. E. Delancy, clerk in the nayal service, at Kittery, Ho., Iately dead, had no hands, but he ot Tapidly, holding the pen between his wrists. — Miss Ella Garretson and Miss Nannie But« ler, of Muscatine, Ia., are gone on a tour through Europe, unembarrassed and unmompmledgy the biped man. — Pere Hyacinthe advises all men to marry. One who has long served in the harnessremarks, “He has only been married three montha!” —Renan is coming to this country early in January. His “Iafe of Christ” and other works have made for him many admirers on this side of the water. —Stephen T. Farwell, of Cambridge, Mass., lonnar%member of the State Senate, for many ears a Deacon of the Shepard Congregational ociety, and recently General Agent of tha xneman Bible Society, died on Sunday, aged 67 ars. ~—Edmund Winston H , the younger and last of the sons of Patrick Henry, died on the 11th inat., at his late residence in the County of Charlotte, Va., in the 79th year of hissge. It has not been long eince we were called uponto * record the demise of several of his contempora~ Ties in the same county—Paul and Henry Car- rington, John Marehall, and his brother, John e nry. —Olive Logan, in her new lecture, spesks of the poor rewards of literary labor, ad says : < the Iabor I have put into a book, for which I have been most unmercifully criticised, would have seouredme & Toriumein the millinery line.” We don’t see thatit is yet too late for Olive 251 80 inof.do thesmliflin business. Battey ®ays the modern Solomon)is & good milliney éhm—wa forget what. —John P. Brace, formerly Principal of the Hartford Female Be , and afterward fox many years, until 1861, the principal editorial riter of the Hartford Courant, died st his homa in Litchfield, on Friday, aged 79 years. Hehad been in retirement and comparative idlenesu since he left the Courant, and for several years past an invalid. His son, Mr. Charles L. Brace, of New York, is better known than the father, for his leadership in practical city charities, foz 'his various books, and for his editorial writing in the New York Zimes. * e HGENEGEAI NEWS ITEMS. . Henry C. Priest, County Clerk, died at Greencastle, Md., Oct. 20, of an e o morphine. —The foundations of the new Lindell House, at St. Louis, aro being laid, and workmen will in Ewo weoks lay the first floor. —Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, of Genevs, N. Y., died racently from congestion of the stomach, pro- duced by a piecs of cloth four inches square she had swallowed. —Bishop Quint: of Tennessee, hss s goinufl_ Fridsy, the 20th of December next, MP; sy of intercession to the Lord of the harvest for an increased supply of missions, —O0aq the 18t of January next, the Chicago & Lake Michigan Railroad will have over 250 ngli.lel of road in successful operation.. —A Wisconsiner has invented s bedstesd with a partition, intended to protect sleepers from each other’s balefal bresth. In families where onions are regularly consumed, the invention has reaped some golden opinions. —The Annual Convention of-the Merchants of the United States will sssemble in St. Louis the 18th of next month, pursnsnt to adjournment at Balumoro laat fall, —The management of the Grand Trunk Rail- way having determined to adopt the standard American gauge, the section* from Port Sarnia to Stratford will be first changed, and thence to Buffalo. The matter hasbeen g0 planned 2s to interfere but elightly with the ic of theroad. It is expected to have the job completed by the 12tk prox. —The work of double-tracking 4ho Michigen Central line progresses constantly, and will, by the commencement of winter, be far advanced out from Chicago towards Niles, and well out from Detrojt. Another year however, bs Tequired for ita completion. —The Coroner's jury in the case of Henry H. Armstrong, found desd in his dau:ay:g at HMadison, Ind,, a few doys ago, returned a ver- dict to the effect that hé came to his death by a gunshot wound at the hand of gome unknown person. The case has gone to the Grand Jury, who will make further investigation. Mra. Armstrong told s plain, consistent atory from ‘beginning to end, which & rigid cross-examina- tion failed to confuse, and her sister’s, as well as ‘her children’s, testimony corroborated the evi- dencs which she had given. —The Genova (N. Y.) Gazetle relates tha story of a young man named George Waters, who, it is stated, was*sssisted by the Iate William H. Beward and Theodore M. Pomeroy, of Anturn, to get his college honors to Hobast College, & few years since. He went to Californis, made and lost two fortunes, and finally located a min- ing claim at Shelbourne, Nev. When it waas deeded to him, he conveyed 100 feet to each of his former benefactors, Seward and Pomeroy, in remembrance of their early kindness. Tha story goes that the lucky minet has sold his part of the mine for 8400,000, while £40,000 has been. paced to the credit of Messrs. Seward and omeroy. —Dr. J. P. 8iddall, of Indianapolis, was arrest- ed, Saturday morning, on charge of producin ;}%flrfien. He furnished bail in the sum of ,500. —The pondercus opers glasses of twenty about one hundred . and fifty women were_ con- fronted by Uncle Sam, and the old man hada good deal of fun and made some wonderful dis- coveries. .- For instance, a modest little woman, who was in & great hurry fo go home to her sick child, gulled out & few pins, and ten yards of English annel fell to the flaor. A tall woman, with tears in her eyss, who esserted that ehe would sooner chop her head off than to think of smg- gling, unfastened a pound of tes from her skel eton, and asserted that it must have been placed therd by some designing person. Another one indignantly denied ‘' the right of search,” but, after remaining a prisoner for an_hour or two, told the searcher to “take it and go to grass,” throwing & package of ribbong and laces on the floor. A lot of calico was found on another, some velvet on another, and at least 10 per cent of the whole number were found to be engpged in smuggling. . The officials were satiafiegfwith confiscating the goods, and it is said that womisn who land from Canads during the day to-day will e marched up etairs and turned over to the care of the grim female, Who heeds no threats and melts at no sighs. —_— The Smith College for Women. __From the Boston. Aduertiser. It will be remembered that the late Miss Sophia Smich, of Hatfield, in this State, be- quenthed by will & considerable.sum of money for the establishment and maintenance of an in- stitation for * the higher education of young women,” designed to equal in the advan! 8 Trustees named in the will have purchased an eligible site in the beautiful town of Northamp- ton, six miles from the colleges in Amherst and an an equal distance from the Mount Holyoke Seminary. They have cash funds, including $25,000 given by the town of Northampton, amounting to $358,000. They are_now seekin the means to erect_the necessary buildings an an art museum without encroaching on these funds, and the Rev, John M. Greene, of Lovell, formerly Miss Smith's pastor, bas been appoint- da %aneml agent to solicit nssistance from the friends of ‘religion and education. Misa Smith’s will forbade the_expendituse of mora than half the sum left by her. for buildings. The scheme which the Board of Trustees have sdopted is & latge one. The study -of Gresk and Latin is "to be pursued a8 extensively as in colleges for young men; not less sttention ‘hung yoars' have again come into fashion, su :eding the delicate lorgnettes we have s a. —Thers is on exhibition before the State His- torical Society, at Boston, the cane with which Preston Brooks sssaulted Charles Sumner, the identity of which is unquestioned. It is of ebony, eolid and heavy, with a carved ivory head, and it incloses a substantial sword or dag- ger of steel. L —Colonel DeGraff, who builds railroads in Minnesota, employs a force of about 4,000 men on the several {ines under contract. In addition to the human force, there are also 1,100 tesms ‘employed. The Winona & 8t. Peter Rosd will be comploted to the State line by the 6th of No- vember, and to Lake Campesks before the closs of the month. —A Isme girl who had not for fourteen years once left the third-story back room in which she lived, was among those who participated in_the late children’s excursion inPY:fl.ud &h.m. ‘When carried to the o grass and snk, she asked what' trees were, and had to be told the names of the most common objects, Shelay on the grass all day, drinking in the air and sunshine, and wasg seen to weep goftly every little while from pure Joy- A Child Hung Until Dead on the Back of a Chair. From the Knozvills (Tenn.) Press, Oct. 13. ‘William Bands and_his wife are_poor people, living on Co) Ridge, Union County, Tenn. geitraille ab om i e o en, the younges an infant about 1 year o8, Mr. and tirs, went out that sy nta ficld near the house to bind fodder, leaving the three children, the youngest of whom wasnot ot 4 years of sge, in the house. In about iwenty ‘minutes . Bands return and was horror-stricken to find _the infant to the back of a chair—desd. It appeared that the baby had climbed up on a chaic to the bed, and in getting down sgain from the bed jts slip canght in the projecting upright of the back of the chair, whiri, 28 the infant tried to get on the floor, pushed up through the alip to the neck. The button held on, the weight of the infant not being sufficient to tear it away, and as the feet of the baby could not reach to the floor, the sad result was that it soon suffocated. The other two children were too small even to ‘know of the danger which quickly ended tho life of their littla prother.